Drums Are for Parades

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Drums Are For Parades. Or so they say…we’re not sure that when the name was coined it was meant to be literal. In fact, truth be told, we don’t even know where the name came from. Because like nearly everything else about DAFP – the answers to any questions just seem to lead to more questions… What we do know to be fact. There are three of them. Sometimes four. The fourth “member” isn’t a member, but another drummer. We know they were formed in Gent, Belgium sometime between 2006 and 2007. They recorded both their albums with one Niek Meul, himself from Gent music royalty. We know that somewhere deep in the anals of their history, one member was once once a member of Soulwax. We know this record is their second. And there the trail gets – well, blurry… Shall we talk about the music? Or the live show. I’ll do the live show first – my introduction to it was above a sports Arena in Antwerp. I’d heard the sonic mayhem of their first album, and was as curious as anyone else to see it with my own two eyes. As the three of them shuffled onstage and plugged in, I was immediately transported back to seeing the Melvins circa 1998. There was a lineage that went beyond the imposing Buzz-like figure of Wim R. DAFP’s guitarist, occasional singer, and nominal “front man”. As they turned their backs on us, and laid into a track off their debut album, all hell broke loose around me. I wasn’t entirely sure whether it was the songs, or the sheer maelstrom of movement and m

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Artificial Sacrificial Darkness in the Temple of the Damned

Sacrificial Artificial Darkness in the Temple of the Damned

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De Afrekening 49 CD1

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Virgin Powder (feat. Silver Surfering Rudeboy) - Single

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De Afrekening 49

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Sacrifical artificial darkness in the temple of the damned

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Artificial Sacrificial Darkness In the Temple of the Damned - EP

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Doomed & Stoned in Belgium

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Dour Compilation Vol. 1 - Thursday

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Studio Brussel - De Afrekening Vol. 49 [[Disc 1]]

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